Kenneth Okonkwo, the spokesman of Obi/Datti Campaign Organization, Kenneth Okonkwo, has hit back Professor Wole Soyinka over his attacks on OBIdients.
While responding to the series of attacks that followed his condemnation of Datti Yusuf Baba-Ahmed’s Channels TV controversial interview, Soyinka in a piece titled “fascism on course” criticized Obi’s supporters and described them as fascists.
Soyinka challenged Baba-Ahmed to a one-on-one interview and branded the movement as one intolerant of criticism, however constructive. He added it was negative manifestation of democracy.
Okonkwo, who openly responded to Soyinka in a recent tweet, described him as a cultist that lacks the moral right to criticize Obidients.
He added that the Professor remains part of a self-confessed wasted generation in the country.
He tweeted: “I am so very proud to be an Obidient fighting for a new Nigeria and a cultist who is part of a self-confessed wasted generation has no moral right to condemn a divine movement fighting for the destruction of the structure of criminality, corruption and impunity of that generation.”
Soyinka co-founded Pyrates Confraternity when he was a student in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1952 with the mandate to fight for human rights and social justice in Nigeria. The Pirates used to engage in peaceful protests against the Nigerian government and hold an annual colloquium.
Soyinka and the other founders were motivated to challenge the congealing elitism of the upper-middle class in Nigeria in the 1950s.
Meanwhile, there are theories that cultism in Nigeria’s higher institutions emanated from the Pirates Confraternity.
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